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The City of Halifax
(est. 1841) was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire
town of Halifax County, and was the largest city in Atlantic Canada
until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. It
is no longer an incorporated city and is a community of HRM.

The Town of Halifax was founded by British
government under the direction of the Board of Trade and Plantations
under the command of Governor Edward Cornwallis in 1749. After a
protracted struggle between residents and the Governor, the City of
Halifax was incorporated in 1841.

On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova
Scotia dissolved the City of Halifax, and amalgamated the four
municipalities within Halifax County and formed Halifax Regional
Municipality, a single-tier regional government covering that whole
area.

Today the area of the former City of Halifax
is now referred to as an unincorporated "provincial metropolitan area"
by the provincial government's place name website and the area is
referred to as "Halifax, Nova Scotia" for civic addressing and as a
placename.

The area is now administered as two separate
community planning areas by the regional government for development,
Halifax Peninsula and Mainland Halifax. It forms a significant part of
the Halifax urban area. Residents of the former city are referred to as
"Haligonians".

Halifax Robert L. Stanfield International
Airport, or Halifax/Stanfield International Airport (IATA: YHZ, ICAO:
CYHZ) is an airport in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada that serves the
Halifax Regional Municipality and central Nova Scotia as well as
adjacent areas in the neighbouring Maritime provinces.

The airport, owned by Transport Canada since
it was constructed and operated, since 2000, by the Halifax
International Airport Authority (HIAA) forms part of the National
Airports System. The airport hosts the headquarters of Air Canada Jazz
and CanJet.

Halifax is connected to the rest of Canada by provincial highways
101, 102, 103, and 104. Highway 102 runs between Halifax and Truro,
where it connects to Highway 104 (the Trans-Canada Highway). Going west
on 104 takes one to the New Brunswick border, and then onto Maine,
Quebec, or Prince Edward Island. It's about 2 hours from Halifax to the
New Brunswick border; there is a $4.00 toll at the Cobequid pass. Going
east on 104 takes one to Cape Breton.

A ferry service in North Sydney, Nova Scotia
connects Nova Scotia with Newfoundland. Highway 103 connects Halifax
with the South Shore. Highway 101 connects Halifax with the Annapolis
valley. A ferry service connects Digby (about 2.5 hours from Halifax)
with Saint John, New Brunswick.

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